Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...previous downswing (1951-72). We shall have to try dealing with inflation more seriously than we now are. On the other hand, the Kondratieff upswing requires greatly enlarged investments in energy production and conservation, transport, water conservation and development, pollution control. When economists, politicians and businessmen come to understand that these will be our leading growth sectors, and we act to stimulate private and, where necessary, public investment in these directions, unemployment should be low, our growth rate high...
...problems here are an ill-equipped and ill-motivated local soldiery (they go into battle carrying shotguns), the corruption of the local district leader, a high command that doesn't understand the nature of guerrilla warfare, and a less-than-inspiring crowd of American helpers. Among them: A sergeant whose gung-ho spirit has been burned out in the war. A lieutenant who moronically parrots-because he moronically believes-all the official rationales for the war, all the official ideas of how to conduct yourself on this dark and bloody ground. A sometime college student one suspects of having...
...variation of the game that he hadn't seen before. It was a lot like the day he had first learned to write his name cursive. It was his name all right, but written in a way that was not straight-forward, not easy to look at, or understand. The Harvard Band marched on the field for the halftime show...
...CIRCUMSTANCES surrounding the MOVE shoot-out throw an interesting light on racial conflict in America's cities. They illustrate how what appears on the surface to be a racial conflict actually goes much deeper and ultimately rests on sharp class divisions in our society today. To understand this, one must know a little about MOVE's ideology. First and foremost, the group opposes technology. Its members reportedly eat only raw meat, rarely take baths, raise rats and dozens of dogs. MOVE members refuse to use modern plumbing. They hate cars, airplanes, consumer markets and anything else that is a product...
...Tuchman sees it, the noblemen of the time, including most of the rulers, were petulant adolescents. The French, who lost to England at Crecy in 1346, and at Poitiers ten years later, did so because they refused obstinately to understand that archers, who were not noble, could be effective soldiers. They still had not learned their lesson by the time of Agincourt...